ARTS NEWS: Holly Brewer, Burke Professor of American History @univofmaryland.bsky.social will review 'Revolution 250: America’s Independence Story 1763–1783', currently at The National Archives👇 & includes rare original of the 1st version of the Declaration, printed on 4 July 1776. shorturl.at/F7jXN

Revolution 250: America's Independence Story 1763–1783

Marking the 250th anniversary of The US Declaration of Independence, this powerful free exhibition charts the emergence of the United States of America.

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What an event it must have been! Heavy-weight law and humanities brains in the room, and (I am told) some dancing too 👇 Well done Lucy, Anat and all the convenors of @ials.bsky.social '4 Nations'!

Law and Humanities@law-and-humanities.bsky.social · last mo.

Delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to the final @ials.bsky.social LHub 'Four Nations' forum for ECRs, hosted at Warwick Law School by Anat Rosenberg, Lucy Finchett-Maddock and Gary Watt ials.sas.ac.uk/research/lhu... - Full programme: ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

🌐 The geopolitics of digital regulation Professor Philip Schlesinger, Professorial Fellow at CREATe, delivered a keynote on The geopolitics of digital regulation at the international colloquium The Theory of Cultural Industries: An International Perspective, held in Paris on 17–18 June.

Delighted to see this play yesterday at Royal Haymarket starring the great Ralph Fiennes; David Hare’s story of theatre in transition - the late 19th century world of Henry Irving & Ellen Terry, where theatre disconnected from modern world, is challenged by Gordon Craig, Stanislavsky & others. 🌟

In a week from today I'll be on this great panel discussing intellectual property in the early United States with @hdernity.bsky.social @kalimurray.bsky.social and others not I think on bsky. I hope some of you can tune in! iona.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: [Intellectual] Properties of Revolution: Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks in Early America. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abou...

For the SHEAR 2026 annual conference, thanks to sponsorship from the University of Texas at Dallas and the UTD Open History Lab and the Virginia Military Institute with support from Iona University's ...

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BOOK LAUNCH: Copyright, Contract & Video Games by Dr Amy Thomas of @create-glasgow.bsky.social: “how video game contracts act as monologues of power, moulding players to align with proprietary ideologies.” Hybrid, 14 July at 11am UK time. Looking forward to it! Email Amy to join.

Congrats to @profprobert.bsky.social! At L&H Workshop last year, which Rebecca convened in Exeter, we heard informally about all about the meticulous research with primary sources that was then ongoing; so pleased to now be seeing double about doubles! Free chapter here: bit.ly/4vdHfL8 👏

Hart Publishing@hartpublishing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Now available: 'Double Trouble' and 'Double Lives' by Rebecca Probert, exploring 420 years of bigamy law and stories in England and Wales. Double Trouble 📕 https://bit.ly/4fLaK2V Double Lives 📘 https://bit.ly/4vdsYia #FamilyLaw #LegalHistory

ARTS NEWS: Inter Alia by Suzie Miller, starring Olivier award winning Rosamund Pike, is streaming in UK from today 👇 @nationaltheatre.org.uk; delighted that @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social will be reviewing for us; recent work by James G-Reeves aka Alice Aforethought includes … tinyurl.com/5bptu3fs

Inter Alia - National Theatre at Home | Watch Theatre Online

Jessica Parks is a judge, a mother, a wife, a friend. Her career exists inter alia (among other things). How will one unthinkable event pull into question all aspects of her life? Following their gl...

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So pleased to be giving this public talk as part of the outreach activities of Southampton City Art Gallery, which reopened this Spring. I will make it engaging for academics too; the new interpretation comes from parliamentary copyright debates re the painting in 1859. Online booking 👇

CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social · last mo.

📅 Upcoming online talk | 30 September 2026 How can the history of a painting change the way we see it today? Join CREATe’s Dr Elena Cooper for a free online talk exploring Abraham Solomon’s First Class and Second Class — two pioneering Victorian paintings. 🕐 7.30pm #ArtHistory #Copyright

And see you in September @zvirosen.bsky.social 👋

Dr Elena Cooper@drelenacooper.bsky.social · last mo.

Back at Goldsmiths’ Hall, one of oldest guilds in City, to research my 3rd collaborative paper with the business/economic historian David Higgins: this time it’s crime, trade descriptions & the Birmingham jewellery trade in interwar years; & we will be presenting this together in Cambridge in Sept!

Forced adoption of babies of unmarried mothers is in the news; in N Ireland a new play by survivor C Cunningham, who challenged the system, fed into debates surrounding formal enquiry. Arts & law converge in Dr Alice Diver’s fab arts review for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social 👇: tinyurl.com/4dpt7j7s

The Marian Hotel, a play by Caitriona Cunningham, performed at The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 21–23 November 2024, directed and produced by Patricia Byrne, Sole Purpose Productions, with a cast led by Aoibh Johnson

Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 19, No. 2, 2025)

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Dr Elena Cooper@drelenacooper.bsky.social · last yr.

'The 4 women stare out at the audience. This becomes an accusing glare. Such horrors occur when society sits in silent toleration of systemic degradation.' Powerful review coming soon for @law-and-humanities.bsky.social by @adiver.bsky.social re play The Marian Hotel on forced infant relinquishments

Back at Goldsmiths’ Hall, one of oldest guilds in City, to research my 3rd collaborative paper with the business/economic historian David Higgins: this time it’s crime, trade descriptions & the Birmingham jewellery trade in interwar years; & we will be presenting this together in Cambridge in Sept!

🎭 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 | Law, the Arts, and the Digital World by 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿. This blog reflects on two recent arts productions relevant to CREATe’s research themes. 🔶 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴? by Georgie Dettmer 🔷 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀, an exhibition curated by Dr Marie Hadley and Dr Adam McDade. 📖 Read the full blog 👇

Law and the Arts: Reflections on the play ‘Are you Watching?’ by Dettmer and the exhibition ‘Grey Lines’ by Hadley and McDade - CREATe

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My book review of of "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America" by Prof. Jennifer M. Black has just been published in the May–June 2026 (Vol. 116, No. 3) issue of The Trademark Reporter (TMR)! www.inta.org/wp-content/u...

📣 New blog | CREATe academic contributes to the conference Whistler in Action, Tate Britain (June 2026) by @drelenacooper.bsky.social In this blog, Dr 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 reflects on her contribution to Whistler in Action. Full blog 👇 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/06...

Lucky me to speak at 'Whistler in Action', the Tate conference accompanying the Tate's current Whistler exhibition curated by Dr Carol Jacobi, Tate curator of 19th cent art. Definitely my event of the year! ⭐ Read more about the conference here 👇 tinyurl.com/3r37hrnv

CREATe academic contributes to the conference Whistler in Action, Tate Britain, London, June 2026 - CREATe

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Hugely pleased with this: my article about Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels as proto-comparative constitutional law is now out in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social! It’s open access thanks to @tcdlibrary.bsky.social so it’s available to all. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you to Dr Alice Diver @adiver.bsky.social of @qublaw.bsky.social for convening the Belfast ECR law and humanities workshop today, the 2nd in the ‘four nations’ series organised by @ials.bsky.social; great that our Arts Editor was there! Great papers & fab comments! 🌟

Watching with interest (as Arts Ed for the academic journal @law-and-humanities.bsky.social )

The Stage@thestage.co.uk · 2mo ago

A £10,000 prize for British Caribbean playwrights has been launched to coincide with Windrush Day. (@arcolatheatre.bsky.social) Read more in The Stage 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/pri...

A book was once snatched from Mary McLeod Bethune’s hands because she was Black. With $1.50, five students and extraordinary resolve, she founded a school for Black girls. Tracing her life in Jim Crow era, this Idea reminds us that literacy and education have never simply been ‘given’ to everyone

Mary McLeod Bethune reminds us: education must be fought for | Psyche Ideas

When they snatched a book from her hands, she pushed back, passing the gift of literacy to generations of Black children

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Many thanks to Róisín Costello, the @irishhumanities.bsky.social and @tcddublin.bsky.social for hosting tomorrow's Law and Humanities Roundtable 2026: 'Visions of Democracy in Art and Literature'; editor and arts editor getting ready to travel! Full programme: www.irishhumanities.ie/assets/PDFs/...

Right now at the conference ‘Whistler in Action’ Tate Britain, Dr Grischka Petri presents on the 19th century artist’s cosmopolitan identity & it’s influence on his art; & earlier fab keynote by Prof Carol Jacobi, & my fellow panellists Dr Lam & Dr Belyaeva. Programme here: tinyurl.com/2rap5sax

Does a "constitution" in an art-work that is "fleeting, moving, & non-binding" have "utopian potential to break open ontological foundations of what we understand a constitution to be"? Beautifully reflective review drawing on theories of Wittgenstein, Abensour, Jameson & others. Fab work Ruth 👏

Law and Humanities@law-and-humanities.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW ARTS REVIEW: Can art inspire us to approach constitution-making differently? @ruthhoughton.bsky.social of @newcastleuni.bsky.social addresses this qu re 'The Words that Bind Us' by sculptor Nicola Anthony, featured in 'Magna Carta & the North' @durhamcathedral.bsky.social tinyurl.com/h62kwhuv

"If law is always and inescapably violent and political, what pathways to action or justice remain?" Fantastic special issue @law-and-humanities.bsky.social on Kafka's work, life and creative legacy - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Castle at 100 and The Trial at 101: a century of Kafka and legal humanities

Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2026)

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My article on the history of AI & mediated authorship in copyright is published here: mckinneylaw.iu.edu/practice/law.... It builds on the work by @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social and @annemariebridy.bsky.social to give context for the development of copyright law and AI works and proposes next steps.

My review of 'Law, Narrative & Masterplot'👇 is now out in Law Culture & Humanities: thought-provoking; intriguing; a future reference point for scholarship forging new interdisciplinary connections. Congrats David, Chris & authors 👏 Review here 👉 tinyurl.com/5n6dy6m7 Book here: tinyurl.com/445yt7yp

Law, Narrative and Masterplot: New Research Perspectives

The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of the legal ‘masterplot’. There is a class of narrative, sometimes referred to as ‘masterplot’ or ‘metanarrative’, that stands above the plethora of other stories, plots, and myths that may be found in law. This book focuses on the masterplot concept as providing a productive yet largely under-explored way of seeing, understanding, and responding to legal controversies a

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Dr Róisín Costello of Trinity College Dublin Law Department will be hosting the Law and Humanities roundtable on Friday 19 June. It will be the first time this event has been held in Ireland. Good luck, Róisín! More information at the below link: www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

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The IHA Legal Humanities WG is co-organising an event at Trinity College Dublin for the annual Law and Humanities Roundtable which is taking place in Ireland for the first time…

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Launched first at UTS Sydney in 2024, I've enjoyed keeping in touch with the great law & humanities brains behind this fab dynamic & ever changing intertwinement of sonic-art and legal method. Well done to Shane, Joy and colleagues! I will try to make it to Manchester if I can! 👏🌟

Law and Humanities@law-and-humanities.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SOUNDINGS EVENT: exploring intersection of sound, art, embodiment, law & justice. How can sound-art & embodied methods disclose the way legal alienation is experienced & perceived? On 14 July pm, Manchester, led by @drshaneburke.bsky.social, J Twemlow & K Chatburn. Book here 👉 tinyurl.com/37c88xvr

Playwrights’ estates and publishers have been left in the lurch by the “disappearance” of a London-based literary agency, which now looks set to dissolve after allegedly being unresponsive for years. Read more 👇

‘Disappeared’ literary agency leaves publishers and writers’ estates in limbo

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My new article, 'User Perspectives on T&Cs in Virtual Worlds' is published! www.elgaronline.com/view/journal... A sociolegal empirical work examining users’ understanding, motivation, and compliance with T&Cs in a persistent online community. More over at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...